CHOCOLATE AS A SLOW FOOD TEACHING TOOL

Connecting Ingredient to Terroir

CULTIVATING RELATIONSHIPS AT ORIGIN

Finding delicious cacao requires travelling around the world to different origins, meeting with farmers, and collaborating with other chocolate makers to build fair, transparent, sustainable supply chains. Through this work, we remain cognizant of the relationship between ingredients and terroir. Bringing awareness to this information reminds us that everything we consume has a story, and we wish to impart that mindfulness on all of our customers.

A COMMUNITY OF MAKERS

A community of like-minded creators committed to environmental sustainability and ethical practices, the world of craft chocolate relies on collaboration. Instead of working against other makers in our trade, we eagerly share knowledge. This ethos—the more we all know, the better—forms the bedrock of craft chocolate. In this growing network of chocolate-makers, we gather in conferences, visit each other's factories, and travel to origins together. 

ASKING THE QUESTIONS & MAKING THE CONNECTIONS

Producing delicious craft chocolate is our vocation; illuminating the relationship between food and land is our mission. Chocolate illuminates the delicate process of growing and transforming a delicate ingredient into a decadent treat. We view chocolate as a tool to instill awareness of all food ways. Ruminating the backstory of the chocolate in your hands is a gateway to further ponderings: who caught the lobster on your plate? What farm grew your favorite blueberries? The craft chocolate movement has the exciting potential to elicit these questions. 

EVERYONE BRINGS SOMETHING TO THE TABLE

Working together with other companies to source and refine chocolate making processes helps us all make better chocolate. Cacao beans from the same farm—roasted under different conditions—can yield very different chocolate. We delight in this difference and want to highlight various maker's approaches. We understand, nearly a decade after starting our venture, that building a sustainable bean-to-bar chocolate business is a communal effort. In the hopes of promoting other like-minded companies, we proudly support other craft chocolate companies and stock a wide array of chocolate bars from their lines.

Chocolate is endless as to what area of interest you can look at it from – genetics, physics, engineering, food science, anthropology, sociology, history, global supply chains, socioeconomic issues, farmer equity, social justice, marketing, law, importing/exporting, and on and on…. as soon as you’ve delved into chocolate from one angle, you can re-approach it from another and discover something" - Katherine Reed, Chequessett Chocolate Co-Founder
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